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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guernsey to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants need to better understand these open education ventures. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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