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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology are empowering students all around the world to take online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Oman to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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