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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education enable humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free 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 quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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