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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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