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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning are providing the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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