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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have enabled students in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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