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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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