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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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