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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Central African Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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