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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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