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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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