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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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