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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Students want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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