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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in online classes. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgetown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants would like to better grasp these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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