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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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