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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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