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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning enable students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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