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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)