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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Universities want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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