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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in elearning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ethiopia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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