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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Trinidad and Tobago to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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