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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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