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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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