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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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