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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in elearning have empowered students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are customarily 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 many topics that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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