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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better comprehend these important new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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