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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. 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 stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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