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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in digital education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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