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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mayotte to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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