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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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