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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are dealing with 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 make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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