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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are considering now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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