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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in digital education technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Mozambique to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies 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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