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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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