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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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