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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. 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. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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