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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, North to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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