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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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