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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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