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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly 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 many topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Egypt to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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