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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education initiatives. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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