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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning have enabled humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always 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 several subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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