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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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