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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are considering in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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