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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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