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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Michigan State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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