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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Madagascar to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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