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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively 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 learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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