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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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