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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in e-learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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