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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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