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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Scientists want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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