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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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