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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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