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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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