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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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