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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Davidson College to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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