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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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