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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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