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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in technology-enhanced learning enable students all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Educators want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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