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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning are enabling humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily 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 a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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