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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology enable students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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