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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is advancing 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 these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education initiatives. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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