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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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