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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in electronic education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major 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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