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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology are making it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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