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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are usually 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 numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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