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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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