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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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