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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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