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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Colombia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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