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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in learning technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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