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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning are enabling students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Instructors want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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