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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning make it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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