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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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