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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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