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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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