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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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