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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning make it possible for learners all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, South to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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