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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these open educational ventures. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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