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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the major 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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