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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these open education endeavours. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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