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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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