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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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