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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are generally free for learners 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 numerous subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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