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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to consider today because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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