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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are considering now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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