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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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