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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are empowering learners all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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