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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning enable people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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