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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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