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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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