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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better perceive these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Universities want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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