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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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