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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in elearning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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