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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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