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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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