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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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