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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in elearning technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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