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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning enable people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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