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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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 variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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