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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because online 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 assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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