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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online learning enable people all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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