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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning enable students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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