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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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