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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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