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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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