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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for learners 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 lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are considering today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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