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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning are enabling students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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