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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). Modern advancements in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tanzania to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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