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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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