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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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