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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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