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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in electronic educational technology have enabled students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Italy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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