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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in learning technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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