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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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