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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take 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. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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