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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take 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. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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