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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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