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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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