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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily 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 numerous issues that elearning institutions have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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