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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free for students 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 topics that blended learning institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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