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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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