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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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