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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable learners all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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