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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this expanding demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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