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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology enable learners all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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