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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in e-learning have provided the means for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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