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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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