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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Micronesia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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