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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning have empowered students all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Baker Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources