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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education make it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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