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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning are empowering students all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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