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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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