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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Bulgaria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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