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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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