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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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