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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Iran to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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