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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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