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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers 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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