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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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