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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in elearning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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