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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sudan to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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