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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently 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 numerous issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bhutan to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education undertakings. Researchers want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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