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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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