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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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