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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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