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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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