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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are usually 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. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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