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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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