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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online education have enabled people all around the world to take courses 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 open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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