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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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