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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in e-learning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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