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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning have empowered students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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