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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online education enable humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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