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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the key 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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