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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning technology have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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