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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in digital education technology are enabling students all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Romania to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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