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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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