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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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