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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to consider today because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like American College of Education to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open education undertakings. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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