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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in digital education technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually 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 topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open education ventures. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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