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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education enable students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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