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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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