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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning are enabling learners all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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