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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are 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 several topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like French Guiana to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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