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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology enable students all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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