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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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