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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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