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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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