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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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