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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners 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 many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like China, People's Republic of to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better grasp these important new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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