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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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