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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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