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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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