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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. New gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education ventures. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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