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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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