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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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