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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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