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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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