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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled learners all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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