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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in digital education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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