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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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