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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these new open educational initiatives. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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