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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in elearning have enabled students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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