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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vietnam to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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