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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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