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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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