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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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