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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this increasing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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