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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in e-learning have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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