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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better grasp these exciting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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