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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational initiatives. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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