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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning have enabled people all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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