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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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