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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning make it possible for humans all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are typically free for students 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 elearning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better perceive these open educational endeavours. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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