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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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