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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in e-learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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