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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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