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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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