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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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