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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major 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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