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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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