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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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