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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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