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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the major 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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