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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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