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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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