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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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