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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to consider now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tokelau to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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