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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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