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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Andorra to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational ventures. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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