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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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