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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Rochester to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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