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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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