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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these exciting new open educational ventures. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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