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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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