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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in distance learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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