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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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