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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in digital education technology enable learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Jamaica to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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