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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning have provided the means for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Dominican Republic to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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