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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology make it possible for people all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education initiatives. People want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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