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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students 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 many topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational ventures. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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