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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like The Ohio State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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