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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with 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. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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