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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses 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. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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