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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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