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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are considering now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Davidson College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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