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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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