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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are 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 many issues that online learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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