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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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