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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in technology-enhanced learning enable people all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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