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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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