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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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