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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. People want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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