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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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