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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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