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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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