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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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