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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the most important 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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