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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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