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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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