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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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