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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. 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. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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