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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning enable learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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