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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). Brand new advances in digital education technology have empowered students in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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