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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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