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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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