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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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