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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are making it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Educators want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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