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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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