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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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