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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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