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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online education have enabled learners all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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