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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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