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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology are making it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can participants deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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