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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are free for students 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 numerous issues that online education organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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