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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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