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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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