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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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