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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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