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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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