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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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