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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education endeavours. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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