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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education ventures. Trainers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the 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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