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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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