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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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