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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also considers the most important 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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