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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Renton Technical College to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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