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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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