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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in digital education technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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