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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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