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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in online learning have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better understand these new open educational endeavours. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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