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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education ventures. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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