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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online education technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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