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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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