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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly 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 numerous subjects that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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