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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education have enabled learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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