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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education technology have made it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured 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 massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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