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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are making it possible for humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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