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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always 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 numerous issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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