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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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