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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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