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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Central African Republic to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education initiatives. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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