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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guatemala to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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