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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in electronic education technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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