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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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