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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in electronic educational technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Burundi to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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