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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology enable learners all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Boston University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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