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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take courses online. 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 open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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