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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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