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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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