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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Zambia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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