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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are empowering humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to understand these new open educational undertakings. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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