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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning enable people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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