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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Austria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. People want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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