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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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