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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always 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 online education institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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