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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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