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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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