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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education have enabled students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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