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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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