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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in learning technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students 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 topics that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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