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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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