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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free 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 numerous issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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