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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational ventures. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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