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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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