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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic education technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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