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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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