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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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