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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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