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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Italy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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