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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Virginia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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