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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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