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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Togo to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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