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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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