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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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