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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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