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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are considering now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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