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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Haiti to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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