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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in blended learning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are 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 quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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