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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily 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 quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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