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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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