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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. 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 institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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