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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning enable people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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