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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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