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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Scientists want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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