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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today 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 stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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