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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. 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. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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