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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open courses are customarily 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 topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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