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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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