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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational ventures. Public servants want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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