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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mozambique to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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