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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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