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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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