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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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