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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Montenegro to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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