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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in online learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions must deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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