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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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