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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education undertakings. Instructors want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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