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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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