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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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