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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students 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 quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Finland to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to understand these new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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