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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ethiopia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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