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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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