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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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