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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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