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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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