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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning make it possible for students all around the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational 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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