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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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