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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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