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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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