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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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