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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have empowered students all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners 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 variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Trainers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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