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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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