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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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