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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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