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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently 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 learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the major 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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