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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning enable people all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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