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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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