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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning enable people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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