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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education ventures. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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