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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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