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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the major 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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