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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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