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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in online learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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