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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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