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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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