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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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