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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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