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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in digital education technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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