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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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