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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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