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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pittsburgh to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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