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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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