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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have empowered students all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider now that online education technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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