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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like French Polynesia to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better understand these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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