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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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