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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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