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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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