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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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