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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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