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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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