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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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