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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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