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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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