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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education are enabling people all over the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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