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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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