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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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