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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Elidaemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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