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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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