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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in e-learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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