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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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