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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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