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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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