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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that 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 assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to better understand these interesting new open education ventures. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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