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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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