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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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