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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning have empowered learners in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these promising new open education endeavours. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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