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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are considering today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Paraguay to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education undertakings. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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