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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand these new open education undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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