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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today 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 educators make sure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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