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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology make it possible for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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