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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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