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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues pertaining to massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Recent advances in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation.

There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the key opportunities associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. For more details please visit this Massive Open Online Course site.

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