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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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