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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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