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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today 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 teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Santa Clara University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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