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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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