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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Morocco to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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