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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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