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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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