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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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