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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology enable students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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