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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Renton Technical College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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