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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the 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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