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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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