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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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