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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Liberia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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