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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open education undertakings. Academics want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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