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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are dealing with today because blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education endeavours. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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