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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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