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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Marquette University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these new open education undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also analyzes the major 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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