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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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