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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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