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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that blended learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Zambia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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