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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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