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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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