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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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