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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in e-learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mozambique to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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