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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key 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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