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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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