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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners 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 online learning technology organizations have to consider today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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