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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic educational technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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