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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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