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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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