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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Panama to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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