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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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