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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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