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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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