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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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