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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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