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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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