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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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