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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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