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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are considering today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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