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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wake Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational initiatives. Students want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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