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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners 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 issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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