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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to understand these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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