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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the most important 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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