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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning have enabled students all over the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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