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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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