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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online learning enable humans all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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