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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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