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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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