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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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