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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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