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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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