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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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