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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in technology-enhanced learning are empowering students all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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