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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education enable people in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that 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 certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This gripping new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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