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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to better understand these exciting new open educational ventures. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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