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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are generally 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 several issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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