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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology have empowered people all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Scientists want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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