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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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