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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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