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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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