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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in elearning are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major 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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