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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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