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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in electronic education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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