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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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