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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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