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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently 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 elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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