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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are generally 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 a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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