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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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