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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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