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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in elearning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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