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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are considering today because online education technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open education endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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