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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Macedonia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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