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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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