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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning have empowered students all over the world to take part in courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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