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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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