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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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