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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology enable students all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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