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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have made it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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