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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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