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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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