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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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