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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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