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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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