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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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