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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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