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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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