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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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