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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in distance learning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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