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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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