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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in digital education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants need to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs) Definition