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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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