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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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