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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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