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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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