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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in e-learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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