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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly 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 online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Professors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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