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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly 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 quite a few topics that elearning organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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