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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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