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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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