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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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