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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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