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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in online education technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that online education institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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