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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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