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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are considering now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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