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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning have enabled people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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